POLS 2350 WITH 100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Justice - ANSWER Represents the idea of legal fairness
Injustice - ANSWER Refers to a situation in which the law or the legal system thats
someone or something unfairly
Positivism - ANSWER The theory that law can be understood as a valid set of rules
whose content is to be determined through a logical system of precedents rather than
through the application of moral considerations
Sovereign - ANSWER The supreme authority in an independent political society
Social Contract - ANSWER Law ties individuals to the collective through a binding,
democratically constructed agreement
Natural Law - ANSWER This theory holds that law and morality must be synonymous. It
is based on judo-christian values
Legal Realism - ANSWER An approach to law that takes account of doctrinal
developments and the social, political and economic bases of specific law.
Marxism - ANSWER The theory that espouses the notion that law is created
irreconcilable conflict between labour and capital.
Dialectical Materialism - ANSWER History progresses in stages that are based solely on
the supremacy of different economic classes
laissez-faire capitalism - ANSWER The free market functions to the greatest good when
, left unfettered and unregulated by the government
Suffragette - ANSWER A woman in Britain, Canada, or the USA in the early 20th century
who was a member of a group that demanded voting rights for woman and who
increases awareness for the matter.
Feminist Theory of Law - ANSWER a theory that places the subjugation of women and
denial of the equality of women as central foci of centuries of lawmaking. This
perspective views the oppression of women as the unexamined bedrock of the legal
process.
anarchist perspective on law - ANSWER A perspective that emphasizes the role of an
oppressive and intrusive state as central to understanding social life. Anarchists
typically endorse a non-state-based communitarian ethic, whereas libertarians view the
rights of the individual as more deserving of support than the rights of the community
Feudalism - ANSWER A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands
that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and
protection of the people who live on the land
Royal Proclamation of 1763 - ANSWER The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the
7 years war. This proclamation specified conditions of British contact with the
Indigenous people of Canada
Quebec Act - ANSWER Statue passed by the British parliament in 1774 that provided the
right of Roman Catholics to participate in government and the use of the French
language in civil law
Constitution Act of 1791 - ANSWER Divided Quebec into upper and lower Canada.
Created legislative and executive branches of government in each of the Canadas
Domestic Law - ANSWER The law of a single nation-state
Justice - ANSWER Represents the idea of legal fairness
Injustice - ANSWER Refers to a situation in which the law or the legal system thats
someone or something unfairly
Positivism - ANSWER The theory that law can be understood as a valid set of rules
whose content is to be determined through a logical system of precedents rather than
through the application of moral considerations
Sovereign - ANSWER The supreme authority in an independent political society
Social Contract - ANSWER Law ties individuals to the collective through a binding,
democratically constructed agreement
Natural Law - ANSWER This theory holds that law and morality must be synonymous. It
is based on judo-christian values
Legal Realism - ANSWER An approach to law that takes account of doctrinal
developments and the social, political and economic bases of specific law.
Marxism - ANSWER The theory that espouses the notion that law is created
irreconcilable conflict between labour and capital.
Dialectical Materialism - ANSWER History progresses in stages that are based solely on
the supremacy of different economic classes
laissez-faire capitalism - ANSWER The free market functions to the greatest good when
, left unfettered and unregulated by the government
Suffragette - ANSWER A woman in Britain, Canada, or the USA in the early 20th century
who was a member of a group that demanded voting rights for woman and who
increases awareness for the matter.
Feminist Theory of Law - ANSWER a theory that places the subjugation of women and
denial of the equality of women as central foci of centuries of lawmaking. This
perspective views the oppression of women as the unexamined bedrock of the legal
process.
anarchist perspective on law - ANSWER A perspective that emphasizes the role of an
oppressive and intrusive state as central to understanding social life. Anarchists
typically endorse a non-state-based communitarian ethic, whereas libertarians view the
rights of the individual as more deserving of support than the rights of the community
Feudalism - ANSWER A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands
that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and
protection of the people who live on the land
Royal Proclamation of 1763 - ANSWER The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the
7 years war. This proclamation specified conditions of British contact with the
Indigenous people of Canada
Quebec Act - ANSWER Statue passed by the British parliament in 1774 that provided the
right of Roman Catholics to participate in government and the use of the French
language in civil law
Constitution Act of 1791 - ANSWER Divided Quebec into upper and lower Canada.
Created legislative and executive branches of government in each of the Canadas
Domestic Law - ANSWER The law of a single nation-state
